Game-board



(No Model.)

A; BENSON. Game Board.

No. 243,194. Patented June 21,1881.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT BENSON,'OF MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,194, dated June 21, 1881.

Application filed April 2'1, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom itnnay concern Be it known that I, ALBERT BENSON, of Melrose, Middlesex county, Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Game- Board, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The objectof my invention is to produce a new and improved game-board for playing with marbles.

The invention consists in a circular board slightlyinclined toward the middle and provided in its upper surface with a series of concentric circular grooves. A series of grooved radial arms, with baskets or boxes at theonter ends, are provided at the innerends with tenons fitting in mortises in the edge of the circular board, which is provided with a sliding tally, strip adjoining each radial arm.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of myimproved game-board. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the inner end of one of. the radial arms, and Fig. 4 is an elevation of a part of the edge of the board and of the sliding tally-strip.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The circular board A is slightly inclined from the edge toward the middle, and is provided with a series of circular concentric grooves, B, and a central recess, B, in the up: per surface. The center of this plate is marked '13, and the rings or grooves B are marked 12 11, &c., toward the turned-up edge 0 of the board. The edge-of the board A is provided with a series of mortises, D, to receive the tenons E of a series of arms, E, provided with a groove, J, in the upper surface, and with a basket or box, F, at the opposite end. The turned-up part of the edge 0 is provided with a recess, Gr, above each mortise D, this recess corresponding in form and size with the groove J in the upper surface of the arms E. A graduated and numbered tally-strip, H, is held to the edge of the board A by means of a pin or button, L, passing through alongitudinal slot in this strip and into the edge of the board A, thus permitting this strip to be moved up and down vertically, so that the number of points scored will be visible on this strip.

The game is played as follows: Marbles are placed in the baskets or boxes F, the marbles in each basket having a different color, which is the same as that of the corresponding tallystrip. The player shoots the marbles from the basket F through the groove J, and as the marble crosses the board A it remains in one of the grooves B or in the recess B, the player counting the number of the ring on which his marble rests in his favor.

The slidiu g tally-strip is preferably provided with a spring on its inner side, which spring presses it outward against the head of the screw or pin L, whereby the strip will be held at any desired height.

The board A and the arms provided with short legs.

Having thus described my invention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A game-board made substantiallyas herein shown and described, and consisting of a circular board, A, with concentric grooves B in its upper surface, combined with a series of grooved radial arms, as set forth.

2. In a gameboard, the combination, with the circular board A, having concentric grooves B in its upper surface, of the grooved radial arms E,'and of the baskets or boxes F at the ends of these arms E, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a game-board, the combination, with the circular board A, provided with concentric grooves B in its upper surface, of the radial grooved arms E E, and of the sliding tallyingstrips H, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a game-board, the combination, with the circular board A, provided with mortises D D in the edge, of a series of grooved arms, E, provided with teuons E fitting in the mortises D, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

ALBERT BENSON.

E are preferably Witnesses:

SAMUEL H. BERRY, EDWARD E. BERRY. 

